Schoen Klinik Group, Germany’s fourth-largest family-run hospital, is exiting the UK market, following a portfolio reconsideration. With this exit, Schoen Klinik will now focus primarily on its core market, Germany.
Proximie is a UK-headquartered healthtech company that has built a platform aimed at improving the way surgery is done and the way operating rooms (ORs) function. In the first few years of the company’s existence, it was essentially a telehealth platform for surgeons, helping them collaborate, guide and educate one another across the world via a video connection. But since HBI last interviewed Proximie's CEO and founder Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2023, it’s been transformed into a super-high-tech platform that uses ambient data capture and AI to optimise OR workflows and improve surgery outcomes.
Healthcare and life sciences deal activity is expected to pick up in 2026, following trends seen in 2025 when the market remained steady despite regulatory challenges, according to a recent report from global law firm Osborne Clarke. HBI spoke to Matthew Edwards, Partner at Osborne Clarke, to explore these developments and what they could mean for healthcare and life sciences transactions in 2026.
Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s largest private hospital group, has announced plans to separate its European arm, Ramsay Santé, by distributing its shares directly to its existing shareholders through an in-specie distribution.
Italian insurer Reale Mutua is set to buy an 80% stake in Lifenet Healthcare, a hospital and outpatient services group in the north of the country, from Exor, the investment firm owned by the Agnelli family, and the company’s founder, in a deal reportedly worth around €600 million.
Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s biggest private hospital group by revenue, may drop plans to demerge its struggling European business, Ramsay Santé, and instead offload its majority stake to the other main shareholder.
Ramsay appointed investment bank Goldman Sachs in early 2025 to review its options for Santé. Many had expected the group to spin off the European business via an in-species distribution of Sante shares to Ramsay Health Care shareholders. But sources quoted in the Australian press now suggest that option has been dropped.
Lenders of Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator, Healthscope, have now approved a plan to restructure the group into a not-for-profit organisation following its liquidation process.
Private health insurer Bupa and publicly listed not-for-profit insurer HCF are reportedly preparing to lobby the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to block the acquisition of Canberra-based National Capital Private Hospital (NCPH) by Australia’s largest for-profit hospital group, Ramsay Health Care.
London-based private equity firms Bridgepoint and Triton Partners are in discussions to acquire the UK’s largest for-profit private hospital group Spire Healthcare for ~£1.5 billion (~ €1.7 billion).
Piraeus, Greece’s largest bank, has approached Bioiatriki, Greece’s largest for-profit primary care group, with the intention of acquiring it and integrating it with the insurer it bought last year, Ethniki Insurance, to form a major payor-provider which would become the largest for-profit healthcare provider in the country.
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